Joe Hill Louis

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We All Gotta Go Sometime 00:00 Tools
Gotta Let You Go 00:00 Tools
Boogie in the Park 00:00 Tools
She May Be Yours (But She Comes to See Me Sometimes) 00:00 Tools
Hydramatic Woman 00:00 Tools
She May Be Yours (But She Comes to See Me Sometime) 00:00 Tools
Gotta Go Baby 00:00 Tools
When I Am Gone (Extended Version) 00:00 Tools
Heartache Baby 00:00 Tools
We All Gotta Go Sometimes 00:00 Tools
I Feel Like A Million 00:00 Tools
Tiger Man 00:00 Tools
Dorothy Mae 00:00 Tools
Keep Your Arms Around Me 00:00 Tools
She May Be Yours 8But She Comes To See Me Sometimes) 00:00 Tools
She May Be Yours 00:00 Tools
Twisting And Turning (On The Floor) 00:00 Tools
When I Am Gone 00:00 Tools
Backslide Boogie 00:00 Tools
She Comes To See Me Sometime 00:00 Tools
I'm A Poor Boy 00:00 Tools
Nappy Head Woman 00:00 Tools
She's Taking All My Money 00:00 Tools
Cold Chills 00:00 Tools
Gotta Go Baby (Gotta Let You Go) 00:00 Tools
Jealous Man 00:00 Tools
When I'm Gone 00:00 Tools
Joe's Jump 00:00 Tools
Don't Trust Your Best Friend 00:00 Tools
Good Morning Little Angel 00:00 Tools
Boogie In The Park - Original 00:00 Tools
Big Legged Woman 00:00 Tools
Keep Your Arms Around Me Mama 00:00 Tools
Going Down Slow 00:00 Tools
Tiger Man (King Of The Jungle) 00:00 Tools
Western Union Man 00:00 Tools
Walkin' Talkin' Blues 00:00 Tools
Chocolate Blonde 00:00 Tools
Highway 99 00:00 Tools
Street Walkin' Woman 00:00 Tools
When I'm Gone (She Treats Me Mean and Evil) 00:00 Tools
Joe Hill Boogie 00:00 Tools
She May Be Yours (Sweetest Girl In Town) 00:00 Tools
Got Me A New Woman 00:00 Tools
Eyesight to the Blind 00:00 Tools
Sweetest Gal in Town 00:00 Tools
When I Am Gone (Treat Me Mean and Evil) 00:00 Tools
4th and Beale 00:00 Tools
She Treats Me Mean and Evil 00:00 Tools
Going Down to Louisiana 00:00 Tools
The Way You Treat Me 00:00 Tools
Mistreat Me Woman 00:00 Tools
Peace Of Mind 00:00 Tools
Keep Away From My Baby 00:00 Tools
Railroad Blues 00:00 Tools
I Love My Baby 00:00 Tools
Get Up Off It 00:00 Tools
We All Gotta Go Sometime - Original 00:00 Tools
She Comes To See Me Sometime (take 1) 00:00 Tools
Jack Pot 00:00 Tools
Bad Woman Blues 00:00 Tools
A-Jumpin' and A-Shufflin' 00:00 Tools
Keep Your Arms Around Me - Original 00:00 Tools
Come Back Baby 00:00 Tools
Ruthie Mae 00:00 Tools
We all got to go sometime 00:00 Tools
Gotta Let You Go - Original 00:00 Tools
Shine Boy 00:00 Tools
My Love Has Gone 00:00 Tools
A Jumpin' and a Shufflin' 00:00 Tools
Sweetest Woman I Ever Knew 00:00 Tools
Hydramatic Women 00:00 Tools
Early in the Morning 00:00 Tools
Train Ticket 00:00 Tools
She Broke Up My Life 00:00 Tools
4th & Beale 00:00 Tools
She Comes To See Me Sometime, Take 1 00:00 Tools
Broke And Hungry (Blue In The Morning) 00:00 Tools
When I Am Gone - Edited Single Version 00:00 Tools
Early In The Morning (Near About The Break Of Day) 00:00 Tools
I'm A Poor Boy - Original 00:00 Tools
Sweetest Woman I Ever Seen 00:00 Tools
Blue In The Morning 00:00 Tools
Twisting And Turning 00:00 Tools
A' Jumpin' And A' Shufflin' 00:00 Tools
(Sonny Boy's) Cold Chills 00:00 Tools
She May Be Yours (But She Comes To See Me Sometimes) - Original 00:00 Tools
When I Am Gone (Edited Single Version) 00:00 Tools
Gotta Go Baby Alt 00:00 Tools
Hydromatic Woman 00:00 Tools
Goin' Down Slow 00:00 Tools
Boogie in the Dark 00:00 Tools
Train Ticket (Key to the Highway) 00:00 Tools
When I Am Gone (She Treats Me Mean And Evil) 00:00 Tools
We All Gotta Sometime 00:00 Tools
Come See Me - Original 00:00 Tools
At The Woodchoppers' Ball 00:00 Tools
On The Floor 00:00 Tools
Joe Hill Boogie (Boogie Woogie All Night Long) 00:00 Tools
She May Be Yours (Sweetest Gal In Town) 00:00 Tools
Tiger Man [demo version] 00:00 Tools
Got A New Woman 00:00 Tools
Just Plain Tired 00:00 Tools
Joe's Jump - 1949 00:00 Tools
She Got Me Walkin' 00:00 Tools
Don't Do It Again 00:00 Tools
Chocolate Bonde 00:00 Tools
Come Back Baby (Great Big House) 00:00 Tools
Ridin' Home 00:00 Tools
Dorothy Mae - Original 00:00 Tools
Broke and Hungry 00:00 Tools
Walter's Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Goin' Away Blues 00:00 Tools
Joe Hill Boogie (Boogie Woogie All Night) 00:00 Tools
West Winds Are Blowing 00:00 Tools
She Treats Me Mean And Evil (When I Am Gone) 00:00 Tools
At the Woodchopper's Ball 00:00 Tools
Hydramatic Woman - Original 00:00 Tools
She May Be Yours But She Comes To See Me Sometimes 00:00 Tools
44 Blues 00:00 Tools
Mistreatin' Boogie 00:00 Tools
I Feel Like a Million (1950) 00:00 Tools
Tiger Man - Original 00:00 Tools
She Broke Up My Life (She Got Me Walkin') 00:00 Tools
When I Am Gone-Joe Hill Lewis 00:00 Tools
Joe Hill Boogie (slow version) 00:00 Tools
When I Am Gone (Treat Me Mean And Evil) [1952] 00:00 Tools
Worry You Off My Mind 00:00 Tools
Reap What You Sow 00:00 Tools
Cold Chills Alt 00:00 Tools
She Comes to See Me Sometimes 00:00 Tools
01 - Don't Trust Your Best Friend - 2008 - King Of The One Man Bands - CD A 00:00 Tools
Joe Hill Boogie (Fast Version) 00:00 Tools
In The Mood 00:00 Tools
Hightway 99 00:00 Tools
We All Gotta Go Sometime - Alternative Version 00:00 Tools
Jealous Blues 00:00 Tools
When I Am Gone [extended version] 00:00 Tools
Sweetest Gal In Town [Take 1] 00:00 Tools
When I´m Gone 00:00 Tools
Come See Me (My Love Has Gone) [Take 1] 00:00 Tools
03 - A' Jumpin' And A' Shufflin' - 2008 - King Of The One Man Bands - CD A 00:00 Tools
02 - Railroad Blues - 2008 - King Of The One Man Bands - CD A 00:00 Tools
04 - Joe's Jump - 2008 - King Of The One Man Bands - CD A 00:00 Tools
She May Be Yours (Sweetest Girl In Town) (Sun Uniss 12-08-52) 00:00 Tools
She May Be Yours (but she comes to me sometimes) 00:00 Tools
She May Be Yours (But She Comes To Me Sometime) (3) 00:00 Tools
Tiger Man [Demo] 00:00 Tools
A Jumpin' And A Shufflin 00:00 Tools
At the Woodchopper's Ball (Jack Pot) 00:00 Tools
She May Be Yours (But She Comes To See Me... 00:00 Tools
Tigerman (Demo) 00:00 Tools
Ruthy Mae 00:00 Tools
We All Gotta Go Sometime [Alternate Take 3] 00:00 Tools
Tiger Man (King Of The Jungle) (Sun Uniss 09-09-53) 00:00 Tools
Gotta Let You Got 00:00 Tools
She May Be Yours (But She Comes To See Me....) 00:00 Tools
Shine Boy - Original 00:00 Tools
05 - Gotta Let You Go - 2008 - King Of The One Man Bands - CD A 00:00 Tools
She May Be Yours - Original 00:00 Tools
When I'm Gone (She Tears Me Mean And Evil) (Checker 763 03-31-52) 00:00 Tools
Tigerman 00:00 Tools
We All Gotta Go Sometime (Sun 178 12-29-52) 00:00 Tools
Hydramatic Woman (Sun Uniss 09-09-53) 00:00 Tools
Treat Me Mean and Evil - Original 00:00 Tools
Broke & Hungry 00:00 Tools
Gotta Let You Go (Phillips 9002 06-50) 00:00 Tools
Going Away Blues 00:00 Tools
Boogie In The Park (Phillips 9001 06-50) 00:00 Tools
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Joe Hill Louis (September 23, 1921 – August 5, 1957) was an American singer, guitarist, harmonica player and one-man band. He is significant, along with fellow Memphis bluesman Doctor Ross, as one of only a small number of one-man blues bands to have recorded commercially in the 1950s, and as a session musician for Sun Records. Louis was born Lester (or possibly Leslie) Hill on September 23, 1921 in Raines, Tennessee. His nickname “Joe Louis” (a famous boxer) arose as a result of a childhood fight with another youth. At the age of 14 he left home to work as a servant for a wealthy Memphis family, and also worked in the Peabody Hotel, Memphis, in the late 1930s. From the early 1940s onwards he worked as a musician and one-man band. Louis’ recording debut was made for Columbia in 1949, and his music was released on a variety of independent labels through the 1950s, most notably recording for Sam Phillips’ Sun Records, for whom he recorded extensively as a backing musician for a wide variety of other singers as well as under his own name. His most notable electric blues single "Boogie in the Park" (recorded July 1950 and released August 1950) featured Louis performing "one of the loudest, most overdriven, and distorted guitar stomps ever recorded" while playing on a rudimentary drum kit at the same time. It was the only record ever released on Sam Phillips' early Phillips label before founding Sun Records. Louis' electric guitar work is also considered a distant ancestor of heavy metal music. His most notable recording at Sun Records was probably as guitarist on Rufus Thomas’s “Bear Cat”, recorded as an answer record to Big Mama Thornton’s “Hound Dog”, which reached No. 3 on the R&B chart and resulted in legal action for copyright infringement. He also shared writing credit for the song “Tiger Man”, which has been recorded by Elvis Presley, among others. Around 1950 he took over the Pepticon Boy radio program on WDIA from B. B. King. He was also known as “The Pepticon Boy” and “The Be-Bop Boy”. Louis died on August 5, 1957 in John Gaston Hospital, Memphis, at the age of 35, from tetanus contracted as a result of an infected cut to his thumb, sustained while working as an odd job man. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.